Seems like I missed an interesting discussion here. I can appreciate you desire to get a bump in views. I go back and forth on that myself. The last time I was explore resulted in a big jump in view totals but it was strangely dissatisfying. I sometime feel that people fave explored images simply because they are in Explore - as though the algorithm gives legitimacy to the image. That grates on me a bit. In the end, a thoughtful comment from a contact is more meaningful than fave with "Beautiful composition" from someone I don't know.

Of course, how much do we really know the people we call our contacts? Suppose that's something else though.